Bawk!!
Healthier Choice Eggs Farm is an all-natural poultry farm on-island that we visited Tuesday for the “Eggs” episode of Genuine Cayman. Located in the district of East End, HCE was started by Caymanians Kevan and Donna Connolly in 2009, from an idea of wanting to do something with all the local, wild chickens that were in the yard. 1-day-old chicks are imported through assistance from the Cayman Islands Agriculture Department and raised on a diet of natural chicken feed mixed with various seeds and greens. From that a poultry business was formed.
“I used to hate chickens! But turns out chickens saved my life,” explains Donna. “I started with 200 little fuzzy balls… Chickens are not what people think they are, they are finicky! You lose some at first. I lost 71 of the original 200. They have to be warm, no draft… It took months of research to find the best way to produce the best product.”
Healthier Choice Eggs are all natural, home grown, preservative free, hormone, free, steroid free and are always guaranteed fresh. They are farmed from a mix that took a while to master but produces a tastier egg which has a thicker egg white and a yolk which keeps its shape better and has a nice deep yellow color. Chef Thomas is paired with Donna for Slow Food Day’s farmers market at The Grounds tasting, and will be presenting soft-scrambled farm eggs on garlic toast with grilled green onions and piave vecchio from the MGFD Cart.
